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THOUGH this story is, so far as its main incidents are concerned, of a familiar kind, it differs from others in that several of the persons described are interested in science. For instance, there is a Sir John Harpur, who “was making important alterations in his Observatory; he was an ardent Astronomer, and F.R.A.S.”; Lady Harpur, again, “had a love of flowers beyond that of a botanist, although she was adept in the science”; and the hero, Ralph Hillary, at one time of his life had a workroom “in which he could follow up chemical and other researches to his heart's content.” Moreover, after Ralph takes as a second wife his early sweetheart, they engage together in, scientific research, and discover a substance of “extraordinary radio-activity” to which they give the name Helenium—after Ralph's sister. We cannot say that the author has been successful in blending fact and fiction together so that one can scarcely be distinguished from the other; yet this art is essential to the writer of scientific romance or romantic science.
Till the Sun Grows Cold.
By Maurice Grindon. Pp. 113. (London: Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent and Co., Ltd., 1904.) Price 2s. 6d. net.
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Till the Sun Grows Cold . Nature 71, 606 (1905). https://doi.org/10.1038/071606a0
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